Developed by Stamen Design and social media monitoring company Radian6, circular bubbles with celebrity head shots grow and shrink in real time according to the number of according tweets, while an interactive timeline at the bottom of the screen provides a way to browse back and forth through different points in time.

Interesting to see what trending terms MTV chose to omit from their broadcast: http://content.stamen.com/files/mtv_screenshots/kanye_west_is_an_asshole_sm.jpg

Still, all it does is prove that Kanye knows what countless trolls across the internet already know: "Trolling is a art." When are people going to realize Kanye is an a**hole because it gets people to talk about him?

For more on Stamen's great work check out their blog post on the VMAs: http://content.stamen.com/kanye_west_is_an_a__hole_and_other_twitter_moments